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INTRODUCTION 



This little book is sent forth with the hope that it may 
be an inspiration to patriotism to the youth of our Country. 

All the men who have been able to attain to the Presi 
dency of the United States have been great men; men who 
have had much to do with the shaping- of the affairs of this 
great nation of ours. It would be time well spent for any 
schoolboy or girl to get some standard biography of any or all 
of these men, and read how they have worked, struggled 
and fought for what they thought was for the good oi 
their Country. 

With this little book you can make yourself familiar with 
the faces of our Presidents, when and where they w r ere born, 
where and how they were educated, the time when they 
were President, some other principal event in their lives, 
how long they lived, and when they died. These pictures 
are made from the best portraits or paintings obtainable, and 
most of them were made from the originals that were 
made at the time they occupied the Presidential office. That 
of Thomas Jefferson is an exception, and was made from a 
painting made shortly after he wrote the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence, something like twenty-five years before he became 
President. So, in this little book you have the portraits of 
the Presidents of the United States of America. 

April, 1913. John L. Settle. 



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GEORGE WASHINGTON 

FIRST 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1789 to 1797—8 Years 

Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, February 22, 1732. 
Was commander-in-chief of the Army of the American Rev- 
olution. He was elected president of the United States in 
1789, re-elected in 1793, and served his country till 1797, 
when he retired to nrivate life to his Virginia plantation it 
Mt. Vernon, where ne died December 14, 1799; aged 67 years, 




JOHN ADAMS 

SECOND 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1797 to 1801—4 years 

Born in Braintree, now Quincy, Massachusetts, October 30, 
1735. Was educated at Harvard University; elected Vice- 
President twice with George Washington; first minister to 
Great Britain; was elected President in 1797, served one 
term, after which he returned to his home at Quincy, 
Massahusetts, where he died July 4, 1826; aged 90 years. 




THOMAS JEFFERSON 

THIRD 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1801 to 1809—8 years 

Born in r Shadwell, Albemarle County, Virginia, April 13, 
1743. Educated at William and Mary College; wrote the 
Declaration of Independence in 1776; Vice-President during 
John Adams' administration; was elected President in 1801; 
re-elected in 1805; served two terms; was the founder of the 
University of Virginia. Died in Monticello, Virginia, July 4, 
1826; aged 83 years. 




JAMES MADISON 



FOURTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1809 to 1817—8 years 

Born in Port Conway, Virginia, March 16, 1751. Educated 
at Princeton University, New Jersey. It was during Madison's 
administration that the United States had its second war with 
Great Britain, known as the war of 1812. He was elected 
President in 1809; re-elected in 1813; served two terms. 
Died in Montpielier, Virginia, June 28, 1836; aged 85 years. 







JAMES MONROE 

FIFTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1817 to 1825—8 years 






Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, April 28, 1758. 
Educated at William and Mary College; in 1790 was elected 
to the United States Senate from Virginia; was elected Gov- 
ernor of Virginia in 1799; was Secretary of State during 
Madison's administration; elected President in 1817; re-elected 
in 1821; served two terms. Died in New York City, July 4, 
1831; aged 73 years. 




JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 

SIXTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1825 to 1829—4 years 

Born in Braintree, now Quincy, Massachusetts, July 11, 
1767. Educated at Harvard University; in 1794 Washington 
appointed him minister to Holland; in 1797 his father, John 
Adams, appointed him minister to Prussia; in 1803 he was 
elected to the United States Senate from Massachusetts; 
elected President in 1825, served one term. Died in Wash- 
ington City, February 23, 1848; aged 80 years. 




ANDREW JACKSON 

SEVENTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1829 to 1837—8 years 
Born in the Waxhaw Settlement, North Carolina, near t* 
border between North and South Carolina, March 15, 17( 
His school education was very limited. Was Major-Genei 
in the regular army in 1814; Governor of Florida in .182 
elected President in 1829; re-elected in 1833, served two 
terms. Died at the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tennessee, 
June 8, 1845; aged 78 years. 




MARTIN VAN BUREN 



EIGHTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1837 to 1841—4 years 

Born in Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York, Decem- 
>er 5, 1782. Educated in the schools of his native village; 
jovernor of New York in 1828; was Vice - President with 
Jackson during his second administration; elected President 
in 1837, served one term. Died at "Lindenwald" in Kinder- 
hook, New York, July 24, 1862; aged 79 years. 




WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON 



NINTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1841 to April 4, 1841—1 month 

Born in Charles City County, Virginia, February 9, 1773. 
Educated at Hampden-Sydney College; governor of the Ter- 
ritory of Indiana in 1801; in 1811 defeated the indians in the 
famous battle of Tippecanoe. Elected President in 1341, 
served one month and died in Washington City, April 4, 1841; 
aged 68 years. 




JOHN TYLER 



TENTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

April 4, 1841 to March 4, 1845—3 years, 11 months 

Born in Charles City County, Virginia, March 29, 1790. 
Educated at William and Mary College; elected Vice-President 
with William Henry Harrison and succeeded to the Presi- 
dency April 4, 1841, at the death of President Harrison. 
In 1861 he was elected from Virginia to the Congress of the 
Conf aderate States, and died at Richmond, Virginia, January 
18, 1362; aged 71 years. 




JAMES KNOX POLK 

ELEVENTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1845 to 1849—4 years 

Born in Mecklenburg- County, North Carolina, November 
2, 1795. Educated at the University of North Carolina; 
served in Congress fourteen years from Tennessee; Speaker 
in House of Representatives in 1835 and 1837; elected Gov- 
ernor of Tennessee in 1839; elected President in 1845, served 
one term. Died in Nashville, Tennessee, June 15, .1849; 
aged 53 years. 




ZACHARY TAYLOR 

TWELFTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1849 to July 9, 1850 — 1 year, 4 months, 5 days 

Born in Orange County, Virginia, September 24, 1784. His 
school advantages were very limited; but he had served con- 
tinually in the United States Army from early manhood and 
became a distinguished General in the war with Mexico; was 
elected President in 1849, served 1 year, 4 months and 5 days. 
Died in Washington City, July 9, 1850; aged 66 years. 




MILLARD FILLMORE 



THIRTEENTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

July 10, 1850 to 1853—2 years, 7 months, 24 days 

Born in Cayuga County, New York, February 7, 1800. 
In early life he was extremely poor, and had scarcely any 
school education; became a country school teacher; studied 
law; was elected to Congress; elected Vice-President with 
Zachary Taylor in 1849 and succeeded to the Presidency at 
the death of President Taylor, July 10, 1850. Died in Buffalo, 
New York, March 8, 1874; aged 74 years. 







FRANKLIN PIERCE 

FOURTEENTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1853 to 1857-4 years 

Born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, November 23, 1804. 
Educated at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine; elected to 
the United States Senate in 1837, served five years and 
resigned in 1842; was a Brigadier-General under General 
Scott in the war with Mexico; elected President in 1853, 
served one term. Died in Concord, New Hampshire, October 
8, 1869; aged 64 years. 




JAMES BUCHANAN 



FIFTEENTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 



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1857 to 1861—4 years 

Born at Cove Gap, near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, April 
23, 1791. Educated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsyl- 
vania; began the practice of law in 1812; served as Minister 
to Russia, Ambassador to England, and United States Senator 
from Pennsylvania; elected President in 1857, served one 
term. Died in Lancaster, Pa., June 1, 1868; aged 77 years. 




ABRAHAM LINCOLN 



SIXTEENTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1861 to April 15, 1865 — 4 years, 1 month, 11 days 

Born in Larue County, Kentucky, February 12, 1809. Elec- 
ted to Congress in 1846; was a lawyer and had only a common 
school education; was elected President in 1861, re-elected in 
1865, served one term, one month and eleven days when he 
was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, and died in Washing- 
ton City, April 15, 1865; aged 56 years. 




ANDREW JOHNSON 

SEVENTEENTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 



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April 15, 1865 to 1869—3 years, 10 months, 19 days 

Born in Raliegh, North Carolina, December 29, 1808. Edu- 
cated by his wife after they were married; served ten years 
in Congress; six years in the Senate; Military Governor of 
Tennessee in 1862; elected Vice-President with Abraham 
Lincoln in 1865, and became President at the death of Lincoln, 
April 15, 1865. Died at Carter's Depot, Tennessee, July 31, 
1875; aged 66 years. 




ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT 

EIGHTEENTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1869 to 1877—8 years 

Bom at Point Pleasant, Ohio, April 27, 1822. Educated at 
the United States military academy at West Point; gradu- 
ated in 1843; received his commission as second lieutenant in 
1845. In 1866, by a special act of Congress, he was made 
General of the United States army; elected President in 1869; 
re-elected in 1873; served two terms. Died on Mt. McGregor, 
New York, July 23, 1885; aged 63 years. 







RUTHERFORD B. HAYES 



NINETEENTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1877 to 1881—4 years 

Born in Delaware, Ohio, October 4, 1822. Educated at 
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio; was a Brigadier-General in 
the Civil War; Governor of Ohio from 1868 to 1872; elected 
President in 1877, served one term, at the expiration of which 
he retired to his home at Fremont, Ohio, where he died Jan- 
uary 17, 1893; aged 70 years. 




JAMES A. GARFIELD 

TWENTIETH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1881 to September 19, 1881—6 months, 15 days 

Born in Orange, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, November 19, 
1831. Educated at Williams College, Mass.; United States 
senator from Ohio; elected president in 1881; was shot by 
Charles Guiteau, an assassin, July 2, 1881, lived more than 
two months when he died at Elberon, New Jersey, Septem- 
ber 19, 1881; aged 49 years. 




TWENTY-FIRST 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

September 19, 1881 to 1885 — 3 years, 5 months, 15 days 

Born in Fairfield, Vermont, October 5, 1830. Educated at 
Union College, Vermont. In 1853 he went to New York City 
where he began the practice of law; elected Vice-President 
with James A. Garfield in 1881; became President at the 
death of Garfield, September 19, 1881. Died in New York 
City, November 18, 1886; aged 56 years. 




GROVER CLEVELAND 

TWENTY-SECOND 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1885 to 1889; 1893 to 1897—8 years 

Born in Caldwell, Essex County, New Jersey, March 18, 
1837. His school advantages were limited and he only received 
an academic education; studied law; elected Mayor of Buffalo, 
N. Y. in 1881; elected Governor of New York in 1883; elected 
President in 1885; was defeated for re-election to the next 
succeeding term, but elected again in 1893; served eight years. 
Died in Princeton, N. J., June 24, 1908; aged 71 years. 




BENJAMIN HARRISON 



TWENTY-THIRD 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1889 to 1893—4 years 

Born at North Bend, Ohio, August 20, 1833. Educated at 
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; elected United States Sena- 
tor from Indiana in 1881, served six years. Was elected 
President in 1889, served one term. On retiring from the 
Presidency, he returned to his home at Indianapolis, Indiana, 
where he resumed the practice of law. He died in Indian- 
apolis, March 13, 1901; aged 67 years. 




william Mckinley 



TWENTY-FOURTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1897 to September 14, 1901 — 4 years, 6 months, 10 days 

Born in Niles, Ohio, January 29, 1843. Educated at Alle- 
gheny College, Meadviile, Pennsylvania; elected governor of 
Ohio twice; elected President in 1897; re-elected in 1901; 
served altogether 4 years, 6 months and 10 days. He was 
shot by Leon F. Czolgosz, an assassin, while on a visit to the 
Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, New York, September 
6, 1901, and died September 14, 1901; aged 58 years. 




THEODORE ROOSEVELT 

TWENTY-FIFTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

September 14, 1901 to 1909—7 years, 5 months, 20 days 



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Born in New York City, October 27, 1858. Educated at 
Harvard University; was Governor of New York in 1899 and 
1900; elected Vice-President with William McKinley in 1901 
and succeeded to the Presidency at the death of McKinley; 
elected President in 1905; served altogether seven years, five 
months and twenty days, at the expiration of which he 
returned to New York City, where he now resides (1913). 




WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT 

TWENTY-SIXTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1909 to 1913—4 years 

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 15, 1857. Educated 
at Yale University; admitted to the practice of law in Cincin- 
nati in 1880; was Judge of the United States Circuit Court 
of Appeals from 1892 to 1900; was appointed by President 
McKinley, June 5, 1901, as first Governor of the Philippine 
Islands; elected President in 1909, served one term and 
retired to private life. 




WOODROW WILSON 

TWENTY-SEVENTH 
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

1913 to 



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Born in Staunton, Virginia, December 28, 1856. Educated 
at Princeton University, New Jersey; practiced law in 
Atlanta, Georgia, in 1882-3; professor of jurisprudence and 
political economy in Princeton University, 1890 to 1902; 
elected president of Princeton University in 1902; elected 
Governor of New Jersey in 1910; elected President of the 
United States in 1913. He is the author of several books. 




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TEN OF THE STATES HAVE FURNISHED THE 
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES— 



George Washington 
Thomas Jefferson 
James Madison 
James Monroe 
William Henry Harrison 
John Tyler 
Zachary Taylor 
. Woodrow Wilson 



VIRGINIA— 8 ... 



OHIO-6 



U. S. Grant 
Rutherford B. Hayes 
James A. Garfield 
Benjamin Harrison 
William McKinley 
I William Howard Taft 

I Martin Van Buren 
| Millard Fillmore 
[ Theodore Roosevelt 



j Andrew Jackson 
NORTH CAROLINA— 3 _ j James K. Polk 

t Andrew Johnson 



NEW YORK— 3 



MASSACHUSETTS-2, 



j John Adams 

I John Quincy Adams 



KENTUCKY— 1 ___Abraham Lincoln 

NEW HAMPSHIRE-1 __. ._ Franklin Pierce 

NEW JERSEY— 1 Grover Cleveland 

PENNS YLVANI A— 1 James Buchanan 

VERMONT— 1 Chester A. Arthur 



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